THE EFFECTS OF SIN

Isa 59:1-19

Today we look at two major questions about sin:

1.  What is sin?

2. What are the effects of sin?

I.    WHAT IS SIN???? Four Bible Definitions
A. Transgression of the Law....I John 3:5

1 John 3:5 And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.

B. All unrighteousness....I John 5:17

1 John 5:17 All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.

C. Whatsoever is not of faith....Rom 14:23

Rom 14:23 And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.

D. Not doing What you know is good....James 4:17

James 4:17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

II.   WHAT ARE THE EFFECTS OF SIN TO A PERSON????
A. Sin Separates....V 2

Isa 59:2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.

1. Man from his creator....Gen 3; I John 1:6

1 John 1:6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:

2. Man from his companion....

3. Man from his children....

4. Man from his church....

Heb 10:25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

B. Sin Steals....V 8-11

1. Steals your peace....V 8

Isa 59:8 The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.

2. Steals your perception....V 9-10

Isa 59:9 Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.
Isa 59:10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.

3. Steals your power....V 11

Isa 59:11 We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.

C. Sin Scars....V 12

Isa 59:12 For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;

1. Scars your Conscience....Cp Matt 14:1-2; Gen 42:13, 21

Mat 14:1 At that time Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus,
Mat 14:2 And said unto his servants, This is John the Baptist; he is risen from the dead; and therefore mighty works do show forth themselves in him.

Gen 42:13 And they said, Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.
Gen 42:21 And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.

2. Scars your Character....Cp Solomon
From wisdom to whoredom...
From Wealth to wild women...

3. Scars your Children....Cp David

4. Scars your Career....

D. Sin Will Be Stopped....V 19

Isa 59:19 So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.

1. By your coming to Jesus....Matt 12:43-45

Mat 12:43 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.
Mat 12:44 Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.
Mat 12:45 Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.

2. By the coming of Judgment...

Gal 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Gal 6:8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

James 1:15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

Numb 32:23 But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out.

Rom 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Gen 6:3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

I John 5:16 If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.

 

Sin will....

Take you farther than you want to go,

Keep you longer than you want to stay,
Cost you more than you want to pay.

Bro. Stinnett Ballew

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